The Tropical Fruit Forum

Now, onto Cherimoya, and Mark Twain's documented appreciation for this tasty fruit:



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Anyone have a new link to it? Appears the original link is down.

I appreciate your interest! I have not updated to the thread in a while.

My original plant, the grafted one on what I believe was Mamey, and I purchased it in San Diego, with the photos above, did not survive. It seemed to suffer the most in the cold a year or two ago and got removed.

I have since tried two other plants of green sapote, both seedlings. One was purchased from a seller in Hawaii, and the other from a seller in the Santa Barbara area. The Hawaii one is still going strong and has shown little to no damage over the winter, surprisingly, has survived even a brief bit of snow on the ground, and continues to put on green healthy looking growth in a 50% shade / 50% sun area. It does have a lot of mulch / bark chips. It is not growing very fast but it is consistently growing.

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Ong’s Nursery is only open on weekends, so make sure to plan around that.

Two other notable spots in north side of San Diego county:

Atemoya Tropical Nursery ( https://www.facebook.com/TropicalFruitNursery?mibextid=LQQJ4d ) has upwards of 20 types of cherimoya, 9 types of atemoya, in addition to mango, wax jambu, longan, and lychee.

Exotica Nursery ( https://www.yelp.com/biz/exotica-rare-fruit-nursery-vista) is just a few blocks away from Atemoya Nursery and has tons of rare stuff.

If something changes, and you can make it to the San Diego area, I would absolutely second this recommendation. Both of these locations are close to each other, and are awesome.

That is good info.  Thanks for the input.  When you say that the fruit never matures, what do you mean?  I would think that if the fruit survives through winter it would start growing again the next summer.  Maybe if there isn't enough heat during the second summer the fruit then dies the second winter?

Bill

I think the challenge is it needs the constant heat to mature, and not a hot period, the long cold period, then a second hot period.

This is awesome!

Please add some Mango, Plinia & Eugenia merch as well!

Hey, thank you. Challenge accepted!

Eugenia (Surinam Cherry), Mango, and Plinia (Jaboticaba) t-shirt designs are now available. More on the way. Keep the ideas coming!


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Do you have a photo of the remaining Cherry of the Rio Grande? Is it also about 8ft tall?

Still available. Willing to negotiate or trade for other fruit trees of similar size.

Hi, I have the following seedlings available for local pickup in the region of Redlands, California area (SoCal):

Ross Sapote (1)

Jack Fruit (many)

Longan (2)

Lychee (1)

Canistel / Egg Fruit (2)

Loquat (many)

White Sapote (many)


$5 for each, except $2 per loquat seedling. Please contact me here for local meetup.

For someone doing commercial cultivation I can see that potentially being feasible although wildly expensive. For those doing backyard hobby orchards, that does not sound feasible whatsoever.

With prior water restrictions, in California, has anyone experienced municipalities offerinhg exceptions for fruit grower / backyard orchards?